آناختار

Ottoman Turkish

آناختار

Alternative forms

• آنختار (anahtar)

Etymology

From Greek ανοιχτήρι (anoichtíri), itself from Byzantine Greek ἀνοικτήριον (anoiktḗrion).

Noun

آناختار • (anahtar)

1. key, an object designed to open and close a lock

   Synonyms: كلید (kilid), مفتاح (miftah)

Derived terms

• آناختار آغاسی (anahtar ağası, “steward”)
• آناختار اوغلانی (anahtar oğlanı, “page in a palace”)
• آناختارجی (anahtarcı, “keymaker”)
• سرخوش آناختاری (sarhoş anahtarı, “Breguet key”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: anahtar
  • → Northern Kurdish: anaxdar m
• → Crimean Tatar: anahtar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “anahtar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 243
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آنختار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 39
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clavis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 190
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آناختار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 434
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “anahtar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آناختار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 206